Future Forum:
Facilitating collaboration on youth priorities within the environmental movement.
The idea for the forum came from two of SOS-UK's youth representatives who are now the acting chairs of the forum, Jodie Bailey-Ho and Jamie Burrell. It was their ambition that the Future Forum would bring together youth representatives from every leading climate and wildlife charity in the UK to discuss how the sector can better engage and empower young people.
Charities who join the initiative nominate two young people from their youth boards in England to sit on the Forum. We also have places for young people from other parts of GSR, so we can elevate their voices. The Forum convenes, supports and mentors the young people, helping them organise themselves into formidable project groups, ensuring they are fully prepared for the meetings with the CEOs. The Forum will also offer a level of informal scrutiny and advice on the activities delivered in our other workstreams.
The Forum has recently had its first sitting, with 18 amazing young people meeting to facilitate collaboration on youth priorities within the environmental movement.
We are accepting new members - if you are a charity youth representative or staff member and would like to find out more, email futureforum@sos-uk.org.
Liv Marshall
Future Forum Co-Chair, liv@teachthefuture.uk
As one of the SOS-UK Future Forum reps, I harness my experiences from working with a range of activists to add to our work on improving youth involvement in environmentalorganisations. We aim to provide spaces for youthrepresentatives of various charities to collaborate with their CEOs on how to better include young people's voices in their work, empowering youth reps to take on more responsibilityin their organisations.
Molly Scrase-Kings
Future Forum Co-Chair, molly.scrase-kings@sos-uk.org
The Future Forum provides a unique space for direct communication and skills sharing between youth representatives and CEOs from different environmental organisations. It provides a sounding board to seek important youth perspective for CEOs and facilitates a more collaborative and youth led approach to decision making. These collaborative opportunities ensure we can learn from each others strengths in youth engagement and can platform best working practice. In this way, we exemplify and unify youth voice.
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Senior Project Manager:
Michelle Hemmingfield - michelle.hemmingfield@sos-uk.org